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"Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off."
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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"And there wasn't anything he wanted to do that he couldn't make time for. What did he have to mope about, really? What more did he want? Love, he could hear Eve saying. Purpose. Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can't plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don't happen? Do you spend your whole life pining for them? Waiting to be happy?"

"An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind."

"People who truly live their lives don't have time to complain or judge others. They're too busy enjoying life and love and everything in between!"
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"Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker."


"Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the economy, especially electronic communications."


"Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours."


"If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny."


"Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination."


"Behind a leader there must be followers, but they should always be on the lookout for the main chance and ready to change sides if the current leader doesn't deliver."


"I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream society because they feel that there are going to be no rewards for them, if they stay."


"Inside a religious body you get sects and hierarchies, inside an information network you get bazaars and cathedrals, it is the same, call them what you like. They survive by pointing the finger of blame at each other."


"It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat."
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